Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.”

— William Sloane Coffin

“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.”

— Sara Daigle

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin…

— Aristotle

“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.”

— Mary Shelley

“This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture…

— Sylvain Reynard

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of…

— Anonymous